Catalogue of Books

In The Power of Others, Michael Bond shows how we are blind to our own groupthink much of the time. Group forces, he writes, can undermine our ability to evaluate a situation based on our own observations — or, to put it plainly, to think for ourselves. At the start of the book, Bond discusses what he calls emotional chameleons: people whose emotions tend to change based on the surrounding environment, how others react to an event, or the popularity or sensationalism of the event.